January 26, 2012 – 10:55 pm
I had the pleasure of briefly meeting and listening to Dr. Gregg Zank (CTO- Dow Corning) this evening. Some very interesting work going on at Dow Corning! In particular, his discussion of a waterless powdered shampoo product for third world countries was quite amazing. It’s wonderful to imagine a waterless shampoo, let alone one that is distributed as a dry product in single use packets! Very interesting. It reminded me of another interesting humanitarian project that I’ve talked about before…
Read More »
September 30, 2009 – 10:17 pm
iPhone/iPod application “LDAPeople” allows your iPod or iPhone to search an LDAP server for contact information, which you can save in your contacts with a single button press. It fills the gap that Apple left in Mail for the iPod with system software os2.x (3.0 includes LDAP support, but not for ssh ldap connections, which LDAPeople supports). LDAPeople has a great, clean, implementation. I highly recommend the application if you’re on the fence about buying it. I use it frequently at my university.
The only barrier to using LDAP people is that, depending on your institution, you have to struggle through proper settings to ensure that you can utilize your organization’s LDAP server to the fullest. The latest update for LDAP people has made a great addition- the import and export of settings files! This is fantastic.
So, without further ado, here’s my settings file for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s main LDAP server: UIUC LDAP People Config File. Note that you can search by First name, Last name, and UID/UIN with these settings. The UID is also listed in parentheses after the person’s name to aid in finding the right student or staff-member based upon their e-mail address, etc.
If you make any changes to the settings, I’d love it if you could post below, allowing me to update the file and benefit the rest of the UIUC community. Thank you!
To see other reviews of LDAPeople and/or purchase it, see this app on iTunes: 
Related post: iPod Touch Application: LDAPeople
A recent Stanza update for the iPod Touch and iPhone left me with a completely blank ebook library! horror!! So, not being content with doing things the most straight forward way, and redownloading every book, I decided to see if you could get all your books back from Stanza somehow. To learn how, join me after the jump…
Read More »
